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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Column – An Inconvenient Truth about JYJ’s TV Appearance

It's the translated article from Nate that appeared here, on JYJ website. And it's heavy, and it's right into your face. I'm not a big fan of conspiracy theories, but what is happening around JYJ isn't normal. As always, read this and make your own judgement, but since this article appeared as Column part on Nate, not in fan section - something is going on, and pray that will help boys' situation.

Here:

OCT 04, 2011Here is an idol group that is the center of Hallyu[Korean Wave].They are immensely popular.

As an idol group, they have expanded their activities by combining unit-activities in acting, musicals and other fields. Their
songs swept charts on music sites as soon as their album was released,
pre-order of the album was 300,000 copies and even some record shops
made exclusive counters only for their album. They are also due to have concerts in Europe, beyond the U.S.A.

However,
music distributors refuse to distribute their album when this idol
group plans to release, venues reject their concerts when they plan to
have one in Japan. TV program is cancelled even though they already have
finished recording [of the program], and they even suddenly get
cancelled of the stages that they are scheduled to perform to celebrate
the event as the honorary ambassador. You can see them on news
and dramas but cannot see them on programs of entertainment department
[of the same broadcasting company] at all.

If you see these
twofold situations, you might think that this idol group committed some
kind of heinous crimes or had really bad reputations that make people
reluctant to work with them. Or you could doubt that they refrain themselves from TV appearances as a mysticism strategy.

What
if all of these doubts are not true? What if they are banned on TV
without any heinous crimes committed, always receive a favorable
evaluation from colleagues who work with them and sincerely desire to
appear on TV?Then it is a natural to think that there is something wrong.

This
idol group who I have explained on this column, is JYJ. The group is
formed by Junsu Kim, Yucheon Park and Jaejung Kim from TVXQ, the best
Hallyu idol group of Korea, and they do not seem to have their
activities freely even though they are massively popular. And they speak about these situations so calmly, as if these things are just everyday life to them.

They
are idol stars and there are likes and dislikes to see them just like
all idols have. Ordinary men might do not like them or there are fans
and anti-fans even among women. But those have nothing to do with these
situations. The thing you should focus on is that they [JYJ] are under
unfair situations despite the fact that they have the most powerful
strength as a celebrity. JYJ has one of the most powerful strength as
celebrity in public. The power of a celebrity comes from fans. The
fandom JYJ has passes over Korea and the scale is beyond your
imagination. The royalty of fans are amazing. At the moment in Korea,
the pre-order of 300,000 copies of album is absolutely outstanding and
this is just a simple example of their fandom’s volume and strength.
However, they receive all kinds of unfair treatments although they have
such powerful strength.

What could be the reasons for this? No one could say clearly. But one thing seems to be clear – There are a lot of possibilities that some big power exists[behind of this situation].

There is a word P.S.M on the song ‘Pierrot’ on their latest album.SBS
and MBC enquired what the word meant, Jaejoong Kim who wrote the words
of the song answered that it stands for ‘Performance,’ ‘Success,’
‘Museum.’ The song was passed the broadcasting reviews of those two
broadcasting companies.But KBS interpreted this arbitrarily and the song did not pass the review [of KBS].It did not even ask the meaning to the creator of the song.Then what made KBS so sure of its review, on which certain basics?There must be reasons.One
thing is clear. Other artists may face even bigger interferences that
actually can make them impossible to live their basic life. For them, it
is a problem of life or death. I seriously think that this situation beyond fairness, which can severely damage someone’s living, needs to be corrected.

KBS
previously said that JYJ would be able to appear on Music Bank when
they release an official album. And JYJ says they really want to be
there. The songs already took the top of music charts and album sales
seem to take the top for sure. Also their title songs, <In Heaven>
and <Get out> already passed its broadcasting reviews. If JYJ
cannot appear with these facts, it must be inferred that KBS, the public
broadcasting cooperation that must consider its viewers as its
priority, puts something above the viewers.Also I expect that it
would be way off to save artists who cannot have activities on TV with
nothing to blame if JYJ could not appear on Music Bank. You might think
that there is no way but to surrender to the power [that causes this
situation]. And surrendering to the power could directly become the
beginning of unconscionable bargains, because this is a matter of simple
survival to someone.

The issue of JYJ’s TV appearance is
not just intolerant matter about whether an idol group can appear on TV
or not. This is an issue of that whether the healthy industry can be
settled or not. The current audition craze manifests show people’s
desire to see no other than a fair society that evaluates someone only
by ‘ability’. JYJ’s case is the same.Whether you are a fan or not, this issue is definitely a matter you must think about. About ‘fairness’.